On September 15, Boris Tkachenko, CEO, Youth Business Russia (YBR) and Mentoring Institute, and Irina Gorelova, YBR Regional Coordinator and ScaleUp Programme Manager in Voronezh held seminars on mentor upgrade in the frame of ScaleUp and YBR programmes.

On August 18, Rostov Startup Forum-2017 organised by the Ministry of Economic Development of Rostov Region was held at the premises of Under the Roof co-working (Municipal Centre for Entrepreneurial Development “New Rostov”).

On August 12-13, the IV Siberian Entrepreneurship Forum took place in Ruyan-city. Boris Tkachenko, CEO, Youth Business Russia programme (YBR) and Mentoring Institute, and Irina Gorelova, YBR regional coordinator in Voronezh and expert at Mentoring Institute held a session on youth business and mentoring development.

On the 6th of June, the lectures on the concept of mentoring and specifically mentoring in entrepreneurship globally and in Russia were delivered for the participants of BusinessPROFI and Growing Business sections at the “Altai. Growth Point-2017” forum. Boris Tkachenko, CEO and co-founder of IBLF Russia and Institute of Mentoring, CEO of Youth Business Russia (Moscow), covered the topic at length.

On May 22-26, the second stage of mentoring programme was launched in the frame of the Youth Business Kazakhstan programme (YBK), implemented by MOST business incubator. Boris Tkachenko, CEO of Youth Business Russia and CEO of IBLF Russia and Institute of Mentoring, together with his colleagues at YBK Alim Khamitov and Dinara Babich delivered the seminars for mentors and mentees, organised matching and first matches meetings.

On May 18, mentoring experts Robert Garvey, Boris Tkachenko and Irina Gorelova held the master class and webinar in Google Russia offices designed for experienced mentors, acting and potential mentors on
Business Class Programme being implemented by Google and Sberbank.